Antidepressants -- which include the older drugs like Elavil, Deseryl (trazodone), and the newer SSRIs, Paxil, Zoloft -- are not "controlled substances," which may be one reason they're so often prescribed for sleep.

(That included not just drugs marketed exclusively for sleep, like Ambien CR, Lunesta, Rozerem, and Sonata, but other drugs with sleep-inducing properties, including the antianxiety drug alprazolam and the antidepressant trazodone.)

That included not just drugs marketed exclusively for sleep, like Ambien CR, Lunesta, Rozerem, and Sonata, but other drugs with sleep-inducing properties, including the antianxiety drug alprazolam and the antidepressant trazodone.

The documents Dr Breggin reviewed also contained graphs showing a 40-fold relative increase in reports of suicide attempts, overdose, and psychotic depression in patients on Prozac compared to patients on trazodone.

For this study, the FDA compared patients using the antidepressant, trazodone, with Prozac patients, and found a 24-fold relative increase of reports of hostility and intentional injury per prescription of Prozac compared to trazodone.